Visual-shape competition during language-mediated attention is based on lexical input and not modulated by contextual appropriateness

Visual Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 985-1018

  Huettig, Falk ^a   Altmann, Gerry T M ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 35548943041     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506280601130875     Document Type: Article

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